Yes, We've Seen This Type of Antifa Ambush Attack on ICE Before, and You'll Never Guess Where

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As long-time readers know, attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices aren't new, especially in the Pacific Northwest, the heart of Antifastan. If it's not the near-nightly attacks on the ICE office in Portland, it's gathering at the regional ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., to bray and distract ICE agents. And it's in Tacoma, in 2019, where we see a model for the ambush that occurred on July 4 in Texas. 

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Granted, the Texas attempted assassinations this week were a stepped-up version of what happened six years ago.

Last week, ten saboteurs, outfitted in black tactical gear, attacked the ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. They showered the facility with fireworks to draw agents out of the Prairieland Detention Center. When police responded to the attack, a nearby sniper shot an officer in the neck. That officer miraculously survived. 


The ten are all charged with multiple federal crimes, including attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.

The FBI is looking for an eleventh attacker, an ex-Marine reservist, Benjamin Song, who was given a less-than-honorable discharge. AR-15-type rifles registered to Song were found in the woods near the ICE facility. 

The attackers on the ICE detention facility in Tacoma in 2019 attempted to use similar distractions to set up an ambush. 

Then, one man, Willem van Spronsen, a 69-year-old Antifa activist and member of the John Brown Gun Club, an Antifa-related gun group, attacked the ICE facility by trying to stage an explosion at the facility's propane tank, in order to draw out agents and shoot them. He also hoped the explosion would free people locked inside the ICE facility. 

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Instead, von Spronsen was shot graveyard dead by four Tacoma Police officers who responded to the early morning attack, opening fire when he refused to drop his rifle.  

Von Spronson was feted as a hero and martyr by his comrades who wished him to "rest in power," their empty version of  "thoughts and prayers."

Sometimes, you'll see his name tagged at Antifa operations like this one in June, when Antifa activists tried to block ICE agents from leaving the facility with illegal aliens.

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This post from Antifa Watch notes that von Spronson came armed with flares and other explosives to set off an explosion using the exposed propane tank, but that the episode has been rewritten to downplay his ultimate aim: to kill ICE agents. 

We shouldn't be surprised when Antifa and their anarchist comrades arm-up to commit violence. They've been doing it for years and have their own gun club. They're seldom unarmed. 

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